Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold, item 61
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German line then he looked down in the trench
and said come on boys there is nothing to
fear here and they all jumped up as one man
and got themselves placed in little group
what they called artillery formation and when
they marched off towards the German line
and gradually opened out as if they
were on a barrack square instead of going
going over the top you could see one fall
here and one there either killed or wounded
with the shrapnel and bullets but on they went
and took no notice of them falling until
they got in the German line it was the
finest sight I had ever seen it was
a magnificent Piece of work whether
it was done like that for a swank in front
of us or not it was a splendid bit of
swank I always admired the guards after
that we followed them over shortly afterwards adn
the guards went out and left us here to bear
the counter attack but they did not attack
with troops only with shells but they laid
a lot of our chaps out before we finally got
relieved and went back to Ashan Woods
about 10 mile from the line after being in
the trenches for a week during the Battle
and from here for another fortnight we
had to go up the line on working party
all night work digging trenches and filling
sandbags and burying dead from the
battle a very hard fortnight's work 10 mile
march before we start work and dodging
shells and snipers bullets and digging
and working hard all night and half the
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Mons, Belgium
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Story location Mons, Belgium
- ID
- 5061 / 63597
- Contributor
- Peter John Kitteringham
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